We were musing over Camden's popularity just the other week. Now here's an opportunity to have another look at NW1 under the influence of a treasure hunt and on a mission to photograph its hidden treasures and horny underbelly. Shoot Experience create 'interactive photographic events' that are open to anyone and this one's in partnership with Camden Unlimited, the local business partnership, with an agenda to make Camden cleaner, greener, more inviting... in fact,......

Looks like the rarified air of Peckham is to retain its exclusivity yet awhile. The fate of the Cross River Tram, which if you will recall is to connect Camden and Holborn to Peckham and Brixton, is looking a tad questionable today. Slight shortfall on the finance front (this after they've spent millions on research and marketing). Londonist blames that little funding flirt CrossRail - we knew she was up to no good as soon......

Barking and Dagenham and Bexley are the top two 'fat boroughs' in the capital, according to a new map showing the nation's obesity levels. Nearly one in ten residents in the poorer boroughs are registered with their GP as obese, twice as many as in the healthy, wealthy locality of Kensington and Chelsea. Camden also weighs in with a super-slim achievement: only 3.9% of its inhabitants are registered as obese, though it might be......

Unbelievably, the Olympics end this Sunday. But never fear, if your appetite for obscure sport has yet to be sated you can look forward to the World Freerun Championships coming up on 3 September. The interior of the Roundhouse in Camden will be transformed into a challenging urban landscape for the competition and 20 of the world's best freerunners will be showcasing their awesome skill, fearlessness and artistry with Britain represented by Pip Anderson......

Love the extents some people go to to stay famous? Tonight you could be meeting the man behind the stunts as PR guru Mark Borkowski launches his book with a talk at The Roundhouse. Find out exactly what F(T) = B + P(1/10T+1/2Tsquared) means and hear about some of the best publicity stunts in history. Tickets are £6 and you can get them here.......

In the grand setting of Camden Roundhouse, decorated with curtains and a backdrop of glittering stars, you get a great sense of anticipation of what lies ahead at Miss Behave's Variety Nighty. With booze flowing, the show kicks off with Miss Behave in a creakingly tight rubber dress pushing a rose through her tongue and showing off her renowned sword swallowing antics (remember White Mischief?), but comments, with a touch of pathos, that her......

What is it? Walking down a rail-side industrial backstreet, an ornate wrought iron entrance with busy events and wildlife sightings boards assures passers-by that this is no ordinary green patch. Within lie a shoebox wetland, a wildflower meadow and mixed woodlands, attracting avian, mammalian, amphibious and arthropod refugees from far and wide. Where is it? A little two acre patch of Farthing Wood in brownfields Camden, Camley Street is a haven known to many......

For some reason The Jazz Cafe always falls under our radar when we're talking about gigs we're going to see. But this is going to stop because ultimately we end up completely missing amazing gigs by jazz, world and classic soul artists. And on the very note we were super excited to see that the legendary Martha Reeves & The Vandellas are hitting up the jazz cafe for three very special gigs this weekend.......

“So, erm, this is a song about death!” mumbled Richard Frenneaux, lead singer of Red Light Company when introducing “With lights Out” last night at London’s Camden Barfly. Let’s be honest – as you may be able to tell from that little quote, they’re not a light hearted, fun band like the Hoosiers or We Are Scientists. However, what they lack in fun they more than make up for in depth and darkness, as they......

With a rainy Saturday night vacuum opening up in front of our terrified eyes we turned to the Camden Fringe programme for salvation and randomly picked two shows to go to, to keep us from "Last Choir Standing" and the rotting contents of the fridge. Happily, we picked well and for a modest £15 total, got served up 2 dollops of funniness in 2 Camden venues and came out beaming. First up: Teak Show's......

Six months ago we were on the scene as a major fire swept through Canal Market in Camden destroying market stalls and severely damaging the infamous Hawley Arms. It took 100 firefighters 6 hours to bring the blaze under control but it turns out, the ignition point was just a small LPG heater left on after a stall closed at 7pm that night. The wooden stall quickly caught alight followed by about 100 of its......

The Camden Fringe: It's as good as the Edinburgh Festival, though arguably even better than that lauded Scotch month of mayhem: you only share accommodation if you want to and no one will sneer if you didn't make it to the 2am performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream in an 'ironic' car impound lot. Last year, the small Etcetera Theatre and Liberties Bar hosted 175 performances of 47 different shows... in just 4 weeks.......

“You want some real death-jazz?” screams The Agitator through a megaphone, to which an exuberant crowd responds with a gutteral “yeeeeeeaaaahhhhhhhhhhhooooooo!!!!!”. Moments later they’re jumping up and down to the strains of Suffocation, a cacophonous blend of latin and modal jazz turned up to 11, whilst the group of Japanese musicians fling themselves around the stage like they’re being pursued by a horde of bees. It’s fair to say Gilles Peterson’s ‘Night Of Death......

Last night Londonist caught US indie supremos Death Cab for Cutie at Koko in Camden as they played as part of the month long iTunes festival at the venue. Needless to say, after having a number one US album, appearing on the OC back when it was good, having a platinum selling big-label debut and selling out two nights at Brixton Academy in the past two years, getting to see them at the relatively......

First formed in 2006 to play a few small gigs in Israel, Gravetemple was never a Stephen O'Malley project we expected to see live. When we learned that they were to play this year at Birmingham's Supersonic Festival, we immediately began looking into coach tickets, which is shocking because we are quite lazy when it comes to escaping the warm comforting embrace of the M25. Fortunately we didn't have to, as the band booked......

At Londonist, there’s one question we get asked incessantly: where can I go to watch a bearded Japanese man shout incomprehensibly through a megaphone at a group of jazz musicians playing with the aggression of a hardcore punk act? At last we can offer you a confident answer. You need to book a ticket to see self-proclaimed ‘death jazzers’ Soil & “Pimp” Sessions at Camden’s Roundhouse next Monday, the 14th July. The Japanese outfit,......

Remember that late night/early morning Waffle House pit stop on I-75 halfway between Hotlanta and Chattaboogie when the coffee flowed freely and fried eggs ran just how you like ‘em … or … how about that day at the Shore, sitting atop the Windmill devouring a steaming heap of chilli cheese fries with Bruce’s Born to Run blaring from some car radio barrelling down Route 36? No? Well, if any of that sort of......

Canadian pop band Dragonette produced one of our favourite albums of 2007 before all went quiet with the band. Now they're back performing round the UK and this Saturday night hit up the ever-so-trendy Proud Galleries in Camden. We've found it dreadfully hard to get into Proud in the past; hell even Cameron Diaz was apparently turned away one night due to them being at capacity by 9pm, but once you're inside it's a......

"Once upon a time in London, yo, I damn near had to steal the show" - Atmosphere, "God Loves Ugly" We know. We were there when it happened. But it wasn't last night. In 2006, Minneapolis producer-MC combo Atmosphere dragged a whole band along with them. The storming show, at Scala, was probably the finest live hip hop show London's witnessed that didn't involve The Roots. The fruit of that tour was new album......

A small Camden charity, Hare Krishna Food for All, was named Novelis Community Recycing Project of the year at The Resource Awards last week. We hadn't heard of them before today but nosing around their website we're really rather in awe of their humanitarian and environmental efforts in central London. It's a really simple idea. Food For All provides disadvantaged people with free hot meals in Camden, Kings Cross and Holborn, by collecting food......

On the day a research report confirms what we've been resigned to for yonks, that 2 in 5 of us are priced out of first time homeowning in our capital, a news report about empty council houses in Lambeth Council rubs salt in our renter's wounds. Lambeth are accused of letting 845 Council properties languish untenanted despite a housing shortage, with a hefty 357 reportedly needing less than £5k's worth of work done on......

The dead have risen and are riding round Kentish Town on a motor trike. Does anyone know who this wannabe Meatloaf is? And, more importantly, give us your best captions.......

All Tomorrow's Parties' Don't Look Back shows, in which artists perform classic albums in their entirety, has tended thus far to stick mainly to indie and rock. This year, however, rap is getting a look-in: later in May, Public Enemy will perform It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, and last night at Koko, Wu-Tang Clansmen Raekwon and Ghostface Killah rolled up to lay down the science from their 1995 mafioso-ridden......

The Legal Cafe 81 Haverstock Hill NW3 4SL 020 7586 7412 Expect to pay: around £3-£6 for a light bite, £2 for a coffee, £120 for a one hour legal consultation. Rating: 7 out of 10 Soups, salads, sarnies and...subpoenas? This tasteful cafe brings new meaning to the phrase 'law and order'. On the one hand, it's a friendly corner café serving light bites and superior Illy coffee. On the other, it offers cut-price......

Cellars are this season's must have for the budding psychopath as the horrific Fritzl story shows so it's a creepy coincidence that John Fowles' play "The Collector" should be running at the Etcetera Theatre this week. This two hander works claustrophobically well in "London's smallest theatre". Frederick is a man lacking in social skills and advantages who wins the lottery. He's a repressed lepidopterist nurturing a random and unhealthy infatuation with a vibrant, young,......

New trends have been emerging with safety in mind, though some of them suggest a more aggressive culture or an apocalyptic future. For the rest of us, the Design Against Crime centre based out of Central St Martins is hard at work researching and devising gadgets to help protect your stuff and ease your mind while you’re out and about. One of the DAC’s more successful designs has been the M-shaped bike stands tested......

After five hours of sleep (thank you Mr. Postman for waking us up) and an Eggs Benedict at the Camden Kitchen, we had mostly recovered from the first day of Camden Crawl 2008 and were once again hungry for more gigs. With several artists playing both days of the festival, there were a few acts we missed on Friday that we wanted to catch on Saturday, as well as many Saturday-only artists that we......

With the Camden Crawl spanning two days and as loaded as ever with amazing acts, it's impossible to do it any justice in only one post. Whilst we easily could write at length about everything we saw, you just want the highlights: who rocked us, who we're dying to see again and how we came to love doing the Rolex Sweep. Without further ado, let's try to remember how we spent Friday 18 April......

According to Camden New Journal (print edition), two of the Borough's more distinctive structures are not long for this world. The Bloomsbury Service Station (right), on Store Street, is reckoned to be London's oldest garage, pedaling petrol since 1926. Its cornflower blue trimmings are a welcome sight in the otherwise monotone streets of Bloomsbury. But its days are numbered thanks to a drop in business attributed to the congestion charge. The lease runs out......

If you're not planning on spending tonight in one end of Camden then there's a pretty good argument to spend it in the other. Hangout of the cool, The Proud Galleries, reopened this week and they'll be partying their first Saturday night in new premises tonight. The new location is the old Horse Hospital, and is twice the size of the original club with 3 gallery spaces including 8 private booths and a 450......